this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin it's judgment day for british prime minister theresa may have two weeks of waiting lawmakers vote today on whether to accept or reject her controversial briggs's deal with the european union may has warned of dire consequences of parliament's roosevelt also coming up the people of poland mourn the slain mayor of kabul the mole bitch was stabbed on stage at a charity event in front of thousands and of course in china sentences a canadian

man to death on charges of drug smuggling the move threatens to further inflame already tense relations between the two countries. following terry martin good to have you with us a historic day in britain as it counts the hours to the moment when lawmakers accept or reject prime minister teresa mayes deal for leaving the european union most observers say they're likely to throw out a controversial deal which has split the nation in the house of commons on monday may urge lawmakers to support her plan but her plea was scorned by opposition leader jeremy corben here's part of their exchange the consequences of being against this deal tomorrow are becoming a clear out with no deal we would have no implementation period no security partnership no guarantees. the u.k.

citizens overseas and no certainty for businesses and workers like those i met in stoke this morning and we would see changes to everyday life in northern ireland that would put the future of our union a triss the government is in disarray it's korea if the prime minister's deal is rejected tomorrow it's time for a general election its current very new government. jeremy corbyn there in the house of commons yesterday well our london correspondent is standing by for us outside the houses of parliament in london it is really a foregone conclusion that parliament will reject a recent days breaks that deal today. nothing is a foregone conclusion at this moment in british politics because things change quickly but it does look like m.p.'s have really hardened their opinions over the christmas break and we haven't really seen in the last days that many m.p.'s have come forward and said well i've changed my mind i'm going to back the prime

minister even m.p.'s from our own party because it's such an issue that so deep. in the m.p.'s conscience where it's really about the future of the country it's a historic vote that's been said a lot and it is true so there are as are lots of m.p.'s are not going to vote with party politics but really with their conscience and it doesn't look like many of them are backing the prime minister's deal. if the british parliament rejects teresa mayes breaks a deal today better get what is may's plan b. she has never really said what have plan b. is and it seems that maybe only how close is confidence know what she is going to do if she does as expected lose the most likely scenario is that she will try and go back to brussels and extract something else out of brussels we know that is tricky but there is still some hope that maybe on the issue of ireland she could

yet get another crucial concession but we don't know if she's going to do that and then also there is speculation if she loses by a big margin maybe more than one hundred or even two hundred m.p.'s this is the scale of the resistance against her that she might then have to resign but we will know for sure later today or tomorrow because what's your impression of. the u.k. right now how are ordinary people that you're talking to reacting to this political crisis. to be honest a lot of people are really fed up with bricks and they really don't want to hear anything anymore they just want this issue to go away because the british political class in the newspapers television also on social media there really is much talk about anything else when it comes to politics to people really want to get rid of it doesn't look like in the near future however then it depends when you dig

a little deeper and you asked for opinions it really depends where people live and about the past not succumb sense as i speak it will a spoke to a lot of people in the past we went to brixton in central london yesterday which is an immigrant community and there's a lot of views pro european use that are quite entrenched so let's listen to what people have had to say. the reason mays breaks a deal should the parliament support of fish. all of the she's very good to this country what we're doing is bleeding ourselves over there it is struggling and everything she comes out with are happening that we don't live in lincolnshire say it's completely different area. you know this area here a lot of different things yeah and so it's a better of britain's better off leaving we think so in our area anyway yeah what are your reasons for. my drive and. no i don't think i should leave the

going to make things very difficult for a lot of people because i voted for break six to come out so i did but now i don't want them to come out. so we're getting a feeling of ambiguity there from those those british citizens is that reflected on the political level big it is there a sense among lawmakers that the government is not really in control of this process now. going. back well there is a my slogan was you know you seem to be strong and stable but at the moment she looks anything about and it is true that parliament is trying to somehow now take advantage of that and m.p.'s are really trying to drive the prices of grex and get more influence we've seen a lot of amendments to the deal and it's the question is which one are going to be voted on tonight but we see m.p.'s from both sides of the brics divide remain and brits attempt to try and influence and come round to that side so the remain in

peace are hoping that there could be an even soft a prick said than the one that the reason is proposing and then there are many of the progress that cited really say well let's not give brussels any money before we have got any trade deal and if need be or are just going to crash out with no idea but that does not reflect the mood across parliament most people most parliamentarians don't want to crash out without a deal and indeed that's what also what's the reason why and the government want to prevent bigger thank you so much for now our london correspondent bigot miles outside the u.k. houses of parliament. well the break that decision in the british parliament today of course has big implications for business that's right terry is just two months of bates to go until it will become reality and you know what business will breathe a sigh of relief today when and if the uncertainty finally ends and not only british business here in germany companies are watching today's vote with bated breath because a vote against the agreement would make

a so-called hard bragg's it's more than likely and nobody here wants that new survey by consultancy firm and some young shows that sixty five percent of. german businesses say that any kind of drags it will be bad for germany even though only last year and then some young surveys show that germany would actually be the country to most benefit from bragg's it's still the survey of four hundred german businesses today reveals that a full ninety two percent of them stand firmly behind brussels policy of not allowing britain to cherry pick which elements of its e.u. privileges such as free trade it wants to keep an interesting new german manages believe resit will be bad for germany but not even a third of respondents see major disadvantage just for their own companies for more that i spoke to julie tigerland from ants and young who conducted the study and also if she could put a figure to how bad briggs it will be for german business the feeling is that it's

going to be bad but a lot of the companies are saying not by me which is an interesting result of our study. two thirds of respondents said it will be bad for germany and he said only one. says it will affect their own company how does it go together a different sectors may be affected in different ways or large companies in different ways than the smaller companies i would say it differently i think a lot of the large companies have done a good job in preparing for brac said it's been a topic that's been on the gender for the last few years in fact and as we move closer to that date a lot of companies are reevaluating their location many have decided to move many have plan b. contingency plans in the drawer ready to take out in terms of adjusting their supply chain and ensuring that they're not hit but that overall level of uncertainty that exists is definitely reflected in that sixty five percent who are just worried it's going to be bad for us interesting lead though when you contrast

that sixty eight percent of our respondents said actually you know for the coming year it's not going to get that much worse which is interesting because those two things don't exactly fit together how could germany benefit from from brics it is there anyways is financial services companies moving to frankfurt aware of the well we see that indeed that financial service companies are moving to frankfurt that frankfurt is profiting and in fact in the study that we did last year it was expected that germany would be one of the countries to profit from a brac set in seeing a lot of the professional services sector coming across the channel and coming either to paris or to frankfurt so we see that as a positive overall though the u.k. remains an important trade player and that's why i feel that the results are appropriate that it will have a negative impact overall on business ok so you don't leave it with a the positives will outweigh the negatives no i don't i don't interestingly your study also shows that in germany's germany attitudes towards the e.u.

on the rise in german business. so but if you look across europe though a player. like poland hungary and of course the u.k. negative attitudes towards the e.u. on the rise the germans still love the use it because germans just enjoy being regulated and being bossed around both or to. that's a that's an interesting perspective i would say it has a little bit to do with the nationalism and the rise of nationalism populism in many of the countries that you mention i think it could also have to do with the negative publicity that the e.u. has had three years with and they say about talking about the additional layer the additional costs it's just a regulation without mentioning any of the benefits perhaps i could say germany sitting at the heart of europe experiences more of the benefits of evil to lawfully they're profiting a lot worse huge export nation and as a result are profiting the more we can shape the a you to actually protect our market and encourage a combined competition toward the rest of the world the more the e.u.

will be seen as a benefit so not only having competition for companies within the e.u. but allowing them to bundle forces to to compete appropriately against the u.s. for example or china and so the e.u. coming together and bringing a benefit for all i think german multinational companies feel that see that and enjoy that probably better than anyone else across this can do is argue marriage involvements and young germany was friends with some thank you very much for joining us thank you. i'm recording that interview earlier this morning no leading opposition figure has been killed in poland terry has more on that that's right the people of poland are paying their respects to the slain mayor of the dunks of the mortgage he was stabbed in front of thousands of spectators at a fund raising event on sunday night there was a leading figure in the country's opposition movement.

polls came to mourn the man who led their city for two decades pavel adam over which a husband father was one of the country's progressive voices. council president donald to escape flew to get danske his hometown to honor his friend. i want to promise you today you dear papa on behalf of all of us presidents. and europeans. for use and for all of us we will defend our good god our poland and our europe against hatred and contempt we promise you this so far well. many people knew him personally. for me it's terrible news especially since we went to great school together just over there. and i thought he would survive. physically devastated so i'm very sad

because i saw the mayor very often. died on sunday pavel adam ovitz was praising a fund raising effort for children in need and as the mayor looked out at thousands of people a man lunged at him with a knife. you know the attacker then remained on stage shouting that he blamed the mayor's former party for wrongfully imprisoning him he was then tackled to the ground. prosecutors are charging the twenty seven year old suspect with murder. just before his death at a movie it's called get down the most wonderful city in the world. a lasting message to the people he served. for more let's cross over to

journalist. who's standing by for us in. what the death of. mean for the people of poland. well it means that the political discourse in our country crawls to the unlined there is so much hate in the discussion especially in the social media and that's led to this tragic find no. event that. they hope will instead of fight off. a lot of them which was for the past three years introduced by the public media is that public enemy number one. also because he has some he can't summon all problems with his statement of assets but also because he was one of the faces of the democratic opposition in poland defending courts defending defending human rights defending for example if i saw and also there was an event called acts of political death produced by far right they're going to

station all polenta you'll see it was produced for date mayors of eleven polish cities too who wanted to. have immigrants in their in their towns and this case it was closed to invite their prosecutors in poland because they. decided that it wasn't and breaking of the law and right now there are consequences about that the hate speech brought to do this event and to the death of a lot of it but also to the nation of the chief of the great to charity artists are you at all shocked if you decided that you want to be the leader of this organization and because of the hate speech and during the final of the orchestra and that mother acute public opinion of course has been highly polarized in poland since the conservative nationalist law and justice party was elected three years ago how it was possible the more bitches death being interpreted by poland's

political establishment. well to date the political scene it's not as polarized as it was before the attack because everybody agrees that it wasn't barbaric act everybody is saying you need grief from prime minister and. president and so you do the two older politics from the opposition parties so today we are all together. we don't know what will happen after for example to funeral of the president to where will that political discussion go after this event we all hope that it will be a cold shower for everybody especially for everybody who are using that hate speech and jay yesterday we saw as. a moment of sort of gotten the whole conflict silent marcia's everywhere also indicts going to hear thousands of people gathered around there and then fontayne also as you stated don't. so and then there were many

friends or five of them of which are also the presidents of salt and being out there the countries there are cities that are nearby and different beautiful moment . and we hope that this olivera the will to last for that next months and years and we still don't know where it will definitely or all happen we now know that president i'm very excited to announce nation day on this day of the funeral thank you so much for brains up today that was journalist much a ball talking to us from. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a fresh blast of winter weather has hit central europe making many alpine regions treacherous in the austrian ski region of birdland saudis are urging people to avoid wooded areas over the risk of trees collapsing under the snow extreme weather has been blamed for over twenty deaths in the last ten days. but as well as

president nicolas maduro has increased the minimum wage in his country by three hundred percent in the hike at the start of his second term in office amid increasing calls for him to quit and as well as economy is in deep crisis the country's suffering from annual inflation approaching two million percent. and world's largest which is now underway in india more than one hundred twenty million in dues are expected to visit the northern city of prior over the next forty nine days to take part in the festival people believe that bathing in the city's holy river will cleanse them oh there's. a court in china has sentenced a canadian man to death on charges of drug smuggling canadian prime minister just entered has condemned the sentence the case threatens to further inflame tense relations between the two countries after canada arrested

a top chinese telecoms executive at the request of the united states he's name is robert lloyd schellenberg a comedian national in chinese custody since two thousand and fourteen originally he had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for masterminding a drug smuggling plot a charge he continues to deny. but in a surprise move in appeals court allowed chinese prosecutors to retry him the result. the defendant is guilty of smuggling drugs and to sentenced to death all of his personal assets will be confiscated. it was. canada's embassy has urged its citizens to be cautious when traveling to china and the prime minister has also expressed his misgivings. it is of extreme concern to us as a government as it should be to all our international friends and allies that china

has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply death penalty in cases facing it as in this case a face in canadian the verdict represents a new escalation in the diplomatic spat between beijing and ottawa observers have link schoenberg's fresh conviction to canada's arrest of this woman. she's a senior executive at telecommunications giant huawei and the daughter of its founder. she's accused of helping the company bypass u.s. sanctions and american authorities are seeking her extradition. schoenberg's retrial was boxed through just weeks after one jo was taken into custody and now it seems her fate as well as that of schoenberg in two other comedians in chinese custody might not be decided in a court of law but rather on the international stage. the latest let's cross over to beijing where our correspondent mathias bellinger is standing by materialists as

we just saw trying to set shelling back to death on those drug smuggling charges is this the final verdict or can he still appeal. terry he can still appeal the court of appeal has sent the case back to the original of course so he can appeal again and then death sentences have to be confirmed by the supreme court of china which will look at it again as well whether his appeal has any chance of success is of course another question considering the complicated international environment of this case talking about the cult located in a national environment there's been speculation that this is linked to the case of shoed the senior telecom chinese telecoms executive arrested in canada what can you tell us about. i would say it's more than speculations officially china has denied any link to the case but that's merely

a face saving statement comments in paunchy media and also comments by chinese diplomats have made very clear that china is angered of og months case and that this case as well as two other cases of two canadians two time detained on national security challenges are indeed linked to money but is thank you so much from. beijing in football the final round of the asian cup group stage has begun with heart break for india they crashed out of the tournament after opponents bufferin scored in stoppage time to take a one nil victory and the other game host united arab emirates confirmed their place in the round of sixteen they drew one all with thailand who also progressed to the next round despite firing their coach early in the turn. if you're flying in germany today you might be in for

a delay get heard as more could be german airports are gearing up for a day of travel chaos today as security staff strike over pay hundreds of national and international flights have been cancelled at eight german airports including the country's busiest hub frankfurt at least two hundred twenty thousand travelers are said to be hit by cancellations and security staff on page be raised to twenty euros cross the border at present or a large discrepancies in salaries across germany with workers in the east still earning less than those in western parts of the country and that's thirty years of to germany's reunification. well for the latest on this strike let's go to our correspondent focus in boots who is out frankfurt airport paolo what's the latest. and yard so usually at this time the frankfurt airport here would be a bogs with people right behind me but as you can see the hollows ways are empty of

about one hundred thirty five thousand passengers we usually go through here today but because of the strike action was unknown before people just didn't show up to begin with either cancelled flights or reschedule i just got confirmation that over six hundred flights were canceled mostly german flights to europe but also even some international behind the security checks where you cannot access things should be pretty normal on international flights but people trying to fly out a friend for today they just don't have any way to get to their plane. one of the security is. justified. they're asking for twenty euros per hour and whenever you tell that to people there's usually a gas because the dock is a lot they do one. standard level for eastern and western germany which is of

course fair why should there be a difference however the wages paid right now are somewhere between fourteen and seventeen year olds and twenty does seem a bit much also there's criticism from employers saying this massive strike action at eight airports in germany is just too much for a warning shot because they're still in talks january twenty third they're continuing to talk and there are some offers from employees. so who is with us today from frankfurt airport thank you. of course in tokyo as a denied form a nissen boss call's goans request for bail the decision means he'll stay behind bars for up to six months before facing trial go on scene here on the right was arrested last month on a range of charges they include underreporting his income breach of trust and transferring personal investment losses. denied the charges is ongoing detention

has prompted some international criticism of japan's legal system which allows prosecutors to spend weeks questioning suspects with other lawyers being present. and that's all your business is a reminder of off the top story we're following you here on the top is judgment day for british prime minister of tourism a is planned for leaving the european union has called on lawmakers to back the deal of all the indications. throw it out. there watching the news from more news coming up at the top of the hour if you can't wait that long web site called global three thousand is next thanks for watching.

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